Windows 10: Cannot get Long Filenames / directory names to work

Hi folks

Anybody been able to get long file names / directory names to work

Particularly annoying when downloading music. tagging and copying Music

For example this downloaded from BBC R3 (classical music) -- LEGAL BTW !! works fine when I download on Linux server but Windows W10 Pro X-64 truncates target directory to ~ (the tilde sign) together with 8 seemingly random characters.

Here's the source file name from BBC





With large TB disk sizes now it's about time windows fixed the max directory + file length to Bigger than 255 chars.


Cheers
jimbo

:)

 

old methods for trailing periods no longer apply

Using wildcards (the win7 trick) or \\?\ to permit deletion of files and directories whose names end with a period no longer works. It is no longer possible to traverse, modify, delete or otherwise administrate a filename or directory created with an invalid
name.

 

Windows Media Player not working

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

 

This might work.

http://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.ho...haracters/amp/

If not, map a network drive to a several layers of subdirectories

eg z:\ is mapped to C:\folder1\folder2\folder3\ etc.

 

Hi there
@cereberus

Thanks for the info
Unfortunately that doesn't work - and it's a pain if I have to re-arrange several TB of directories plus their backups.

For example I have some Long directory structures currently :





I'm really surprised Ms hasn't addressed this issue -- this makes Windows Streaming music for me unuseable --note I quite like Windows for other things but this is a "Royal Pain in the you know where").

Android devices have no problem with this type of structure.

Cheers
jimbo